The inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ...

The Culion Leper Colony began its operation with the arrival of the first batch of patients from Cebu. Under Act No. 1711 of the Philippine Commission, people afflicted with leprosy were forcibly ...

Culion, at that time, was not a typical tourist destination. It was known as a leper colony—or the “island of no return”—as many individuals afflicted with the dreaded disease were ...

In December 1912, Guam Naval Gov. R.E. Coontz received orders to banish the CHamoru patients to the infamous Culion Island leper colony in the Philippines. As the lepers were forced to walk from ...

Baar, a devout Lutheran, first saw the Culion leprosy victims during World War II when he was a coast guardsman stationed at Talampulan, 22 miles away. Determined to help them, he used his G.I ...

and Pala'wan), Culion Leprosy Museum Archives, Doctrina Christiana (1593) — one of the earliest printed books in the Philippines, Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings, and Eddie Romero's "Ganito Kami ...